Mathieu Mazeau

Mathieu Mazeau (2 August 1777-18 June 1815) was a Colonel of the French Empire who fought in the Napoleonic Wars as the commander of a regiment of Fusiliers of Line.

Biography
Mathieu Mazeau was born in Reims in Picardy, northern France, in 1777. He became a soldier in the French army during the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793 at the age of 16 during the levee en masse, and he fought in Flanders against the Austrian Empire and Great Britain. Mazeau rose to the rank of Major after participating in the German Campaign of 1800 under the command of General Jean Victor Marie Moreau and during the Third Coalition of 1805 he made the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Mazeau was wounded in the Battle of Friedland in 1807, but continued to fight on until Napoleon's downfall in 1814. Mazeau surrendered with his company of Fusiliers of Line at Montmartre, but in June 1815 he rejoined Napoleon's army during the Hundred Days. Mazeau was made the Colonel of a regiment of Fusiliers of Line during the Battle of Waterloo, and on 18 June he led the attack on the British and Dutch left flank at Hougoumont. His regiment was gunned down in scores by British soldiers on the heights of Hougoumont and Mazeau was among the dead by day's end.